When I say in a day…I mean everything bought, transported home, set in it’s place and enjoyed…in a day! A magical, fun, terrific, memorable, wonderful day!!
We drove around for 45 minutes waiting for our first selected flea markets to open…an older fellow couldn’t tolerate our loitering any longer and waved us in a few minutes early (woot! woot!).
We had so much fun…just look…she’s even beautiful in her bloomers!!
That’s actually an apron!
You should know that for a while now my BFF has been wanting to give a facelift to her kitchen. Her kitchen had a cute, but not cheery/contemporary/vintage/eclectic look she longed for…
At our first flea market…this was the load in her cart…
It only takes a quick look to see…her kitchen was born!
All of this was just around $60…she added to it a $10 plant stand and a few other odds & ends for around $25…
That’s a total of $95…
Cool…we can eat the value menu at Wendy’s and still be under $100!!! (Hey…we’re splurging and now in a hurry!!)
Once we had this loot we made a quick decision to rearrange the day and make the quick trip back to her house to put it all together.
First though, we stop at my house to ‘maximize the assets’ otherwise known as ‘shopping the house’…and…she sees these chairs stacked in my somewhat embarrassing garage sale pile and she says - Hey those might look good in the kitchen…she was right!
As soon as we brought them in…it set the whole tone for the room!
I should mention the first step we took and you should take in any room…is editing. This is not the same as de-cluttering. Editing is taking out of the room anything you don’t think you absolutely want to keep in the decor scheme…curtains down, beaded garlands, baskets, whatever…some will find there way back in, but you must first slim the visual pallet down!!
There used to be a cedar bench where the chairs are, but these are sooo cozy! Three of these beach pictures were her FAVE find, so that pushed us into a wide color scheme that really gives the eclectic look she wanted…
We also were fortunate to have the perfect amount of fabric to create no sews in a bold, cheery, and totally yummy print!
The chest was a trade we made a while ago that got me in trouble…sorry sister!! It made a nice mini ‘table’ for displaying her new collection…she will be able to play with this for many seasons to come…
By maximizing her assets (shopping her house) I found this great green screen that actually goes on one of her windows, but they never use it...
The towel bar was already there…we added the vintage linen and the decal which she already had…($5 she paid for it!!)
It really echoes the existing wall words she had on the other side…and that vintage medicine cabinet was one of our finds for just $12!!! It had the makers name and date of 1936 on the back!!
The cabinet and the bread box also give places for storing pens, bills, homework and all of the other things that filter through their very, very busy kitchen since it’s the entryway for their home also!!
And this little launch pad on the opposite wall by the ‘green screen’ gives a place for keys in the mini basket and books, etc in the bigger basket…
So you know I’m not fooling…here’s an example of cost…
Side note: Don’t you think the oval platter really breaks up the ‘boxiness’ of all the other rectangles in the vignette??
So much to be considered when planning vintage eclectic…or really any room…
-pattern…consider shapes
-texture…woods/metals/linens
-size….of furniture and accessories
-color…at least one white and one black item in every room too!
-contrast…mirrors/glass
…too name a few…
Another feature missing in her ‘old’ kitchen is the flow from room to room…it now flows with her dining room, but also by putting one of the beach pics on the entry porch…the kitchen flows out to these!!
Now…you just have to decide where to sit first!!
She even said that her daughter fell asleep in one of these the other night!! I’m so excited that instead of walking through their kitchen…my BFF’s wonderful family can enjoy a family room in their kitchen!! What a privilege and memory maker :)
For me…it was a fun day and I can remember her kitchen re-do while wearing this little vintage smock that only I would wear…well…me and Caroline Ingalls…
…picked up in the loot for $3!
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The towel bar was already there…we added the vintage linen and the decal which she already had…($5 she paid for it!!)
